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India will not allow driverless cars to ply on its roads, Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari said on Monday. The minister added that focus of the government is to create more jobs to arrest unemployment. Gadkari said there is already annual shortage of about 22,000 trained drivers in India.

In December 2016, Uber's computer-controlled car was caught on video running a red light, four seconds after the light turned red. Uber said that the violation was a human error since a person was required to sit behind the wheel.

Now, the airport operator is planning to do away with this conventional, time-consuming method. DIAL and Air India SATS have joined hands to bring in a new technology from Sweden, which will use robotic arms to wash and clean an aircraft inside out.

Honda said it had entered into formal talks with Alphabet Inc's new self-driving division Waymo to add self-driving technology to its vehicles, marking the second potential customer for the automation software.